A day of monsters & angels, including ….

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Here's a 14-hour playlist of songs for Halloween, or songs using the day's tropes as metaphors, much like this insanely catchy Monsters & Angels by Voice of the Beehive, led by California sisters Tracey Brin and Melissa Brooke Belland. The band was an on-again, off-again troupe which when it was on, could knock-out a hook like on Scary Kisses -- which isn't metaphor enough for the Halloween playlist.

"Natal"

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In honor of: Cesaria Evora has passed away; here she's singing about (presumably, it's in Portuguese) Christmas birth on "Natal" from the Special Olympic's awesome benefit album "World Christmas."

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"All I Want For Christmas Is You"

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Romanian popster Andra has shifted from trying to find a space in the over-full Mariah Carey niche (as with this "All I Want For Christmas Is You") into being more alt rock, more Eddie Vedder... which is vastly more interesting. Check out that later album "Ever Had That Feeling"

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